Real-time performance of a self-powered environmental IoT sensor network system

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 282-

  Wu, Fan ^a   Rüdiger, Christoph ^a   Yuce, Mehmet Rasit ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Environmental monitoring; Performance; Supercapacitor; WSN; XBee

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; INTERNET OF THINGS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MONITORING; REAL TIME CONTROL; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR ENERGY; SUPERCAPACITOR;

ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); MONITORING APPLICATIONS; PERFORMANCE; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS); XBEE;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 85012195223     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17020282     Document Type: Article

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